Criteria for Validating the Feasibility of the Components of a Model Teacher Education Program.

Johnson, Charles E.

This paper contains the criteria for validating the technical and sociopsychological validity of the Georgia model for the preparation of elementary school teachers. The criteria, regarded as essential features for the effective operation of the model program, were developed during the planning activities preceding the funding of the project (1968) and are reprinted here in their original form classified in the seven broadly conceived components of the model: (1) teacher performance behaviors, (2) candidate selection, (3) instruction (including learning activities and materials, instructional procedures, and program sequence), (4) evaluation of student achievement and program evaluation, (5) staff orientation, (6) reciprocal commitments, and (7) administrative organization. (JS)